United States Ninth Circuit

An aggrieved person must bring a private civil action under the Fair Housing Act (FHA) for a failure to properly design and construct within two years of the completion of the construction phase, which concludes on the date that the last certificate of occupancy is issued. (Panel opinion adopted by the en banc court with amendments)

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/25/2008
• Decided 05/13/2008
• Published 05/13/2008

Judges

• Before:  ALEX KOZINSKI, Chief Judge, HARRY PREGERSON, STEPHEN REINHARDT, ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, BARRY G. SILVERMAN, M. MARGARET McKEOWN, KIM McLANE WARDLAW, JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, RICHARD R. CLIFTON, CARLOS T. BEA and N. RANDY SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ken Nagy, Keeton and Tait, Lewiston, ID;  Maria E. Andrade, Huntley Park, Boise, ID, for plaintiff-appellant Noll Garcia., Richard Armknecht, III, Armknecht & Cowdell, P.C., Lindon, UT, for plaintiffs-appellants Tamara Thompson and Disabled Rights Action Committee., Stephen M. Dane, Michael Allen and John P. Relman, Relman & Dane PLLC, Washington, D.C.;  Susan Ann Silverstein and Julie Nepveu, AARP Foundation Litigation, Washington, D.C.;  Joan Sylvester Wise, AARP, Washington, D.C., for amici curiae AARP, et al., in support of the appellants., Michael Evans, DePaul University College of Law;  Christopher Brancart and Elizabeth Brancart, Brancart & Brancart, Pescadero, California, for amici curiae Silver State Fair Housing Council, Inc., et al., in support of the appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Phillip S. Oberrecht and Candy W. Dale, Hall, Farley, Oberrecht & Blanton, P.A., Boise, ID, for defendant-appellee Dennis Brockway., Kirtlan G. Naylor and Carlton R. Ericson, Naylor & Hales, P.C., Boise, ID, for defendants-appellees Robert Stewart and Stewart Miles & Associates., Joshua H. Reisman, Stanley W. Parry and William P. Curran, Curran & Parry, Las Vegas, NV, for defendant-appellee Michael E. Turk., Thomas H. Keeling and Lee Roy Pierce, Jr., Freeman D'Aiuto Pierce Gurev Keeling & Wolf, PLC, Stockton, CA, for amici curiae California Building Industry Association, et al., in support of the appellees., Jed W. Manwaring, Evans Keane LLP, Boise, ID, for amicus curiae Idaho Association of Realtors, in support of the appellees., Christopher B. Hanback, Rafe Petersen and Elizabeth Phelps, Holland & Knight LLP, Washington, D.C.;  Robert A. Bleicher, Holland & Knight LLP, San Francisco, California, for amici curiae National Multi Housing Council, et al., in support of the appellees.